Game of the Goose
Goose Game

On the reverse of the board it is usual to find a board for the Game of the Goose.

The Game of the Goose or Goose game is a board game with uncertain origins.

Also similar have been Italian and Spanish language game shows named for and in imitation of the Game of the Goose.

Six of the little goats play the Game of the Goose on a special Efteling-board designed by Anton Pieck.

Four adult contestants, two men and two women, played a giant board game based on the centuries-old children's game, Juego de la oca (Game of the Goose).

In Jacques Offenbach's comic opera La Belle Hélène, the Greek Kings sing about and play a Game of the Goose and argue over cheating.

History and Rules of Game.Discovery of the Relation between the Squares of the Game of the Goose and the stages of the St. James Way.

The Game of the Goose is the progenitor of most simple Western race games, although Snakes and Ladders is descended from games of India, Nepal, and Tibet.

At Etro the invitation was to discover the "right spirit" of the knight in a medieval Snakes and Ladders exercise called Il Gioco dell'Oca, or the Game of the Goose.

Other pre-modern European board games include Rithmomachy or "the philosophers game", Alquerque, Fox & Geese, Nine Men's Morris, Draughts, Nim, Catch the Hare and the Game of the Goose.

The game was the basis for a game and stunt show in Italy named Il Grande Gioco Dell'Oca (The Great Game of the Goose), as well as the near-identical Spanish version, El gran juego de la oca (same).

In Ursula Dubosarsky's novel for children, The Game of the Goose (Penguin Australia 2000), three children find an old copy of the Game of the Goose in a Salvation Army store, and have magically transforming adventures while playing it.

The game is of the "racing" variety in the style of the European "Goose Game".